It was pretty clear what they intended to do, even to the boy who Espio was currently hitching a ride with -- and he'd been dumb enough to go through with this in the first place. He held up his hands, trying to stutter something out...

And fell over again as one of the Vulpixes the trainers had blew a colum of fire at him, causing him to fall over again with a shocked yelp. Heat singed his face, way too much heat for such a little animal, distracting him from the fact that he was deleting the edge of the island slowly as well.

This obviously didn't go over well with the trainers, and all of them started yelling at once, the boy putting up his hands over his head and causing them to slightly back off.

This really wasn't good.